Turbo Ginger Beer

[SoulKiss]

As threatened/promised heres the recipe.

Stolen shamelessly from Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

Originally Posted by River Cottage

Ingredients
¼ tsp brewer's yeast

225g caster sugar

1½-2 tbsp finely grated fresh root ginger

Juice of 1 lemon

1 good tbsp honey




METHOD
How to make ginger beer


Add the yeast to the bottle. With a funnel, pour in the sugar.

Mix the grated ginger with the lemon juice and honey.

Pour the ginger mixture through the funnel into the bottle. Now fill the bottle about ¾ full with water, put the cap on and shake the bottle until all the sugar is dissolved.

Top up the bottle with water, leaving a 2.5cm gap at the top, to allow for production of gas. Cap the bottle tightly, then place it somewhere warm. Leave it for about 48 hours. Once the bottle feels very hard and has no give in it, your beer should be ready.

Place the bottle in the fridge for several hours to stop the yeast working. Once the beer is thoroughly chilled, pass it through a fine sieve and serve.

Start some tonight and it will be good to go on Sat night.

If you start it now it might even be good to go, if light on the alcohol, for Wedding Day.

Post how it goes, and any recipe changes you would suggest - seen one for adding a chilli to it.

I am currently working out the logistics for making a barrel load of this for the AR - may involve couriers and going up there a day early.

Kiss kiss Soulkiss, you're true to your word.

how big a bottle are we talking here? ok from his site, 2ltr bottles.

I'm gonna scale it up to barrel sized brew.
I would guess 2ltr bottles as per your post.

[SoulKiss]

TBH I would just make 2l batches as you need them - after 48 hours it tastes like canned ginger beer, after that it gets more brewed.

I think this is one to drink young and fresh

[Littlepeahead]

Next time you open a bottle can you give me enough warning to get my waterproofs on over my thin white shirt.

[SoulKiss]

Originally Posted by Littlepeahead

Next time you open a bottle can you give me enough warning to get my waterproofs on over my thin white shirt.

If you remember, I was outwith the minimum safe distance sat next to Treacle.

Voxy was the opener

[Bluepete]

Originally Posted by Littlepeahead

Next time you open a bottle can you give me enough warning to get my waterproofs on over my thin white shirt.

I read that wrong!

Images of a wet tee-shirt competition came to mind...

Cheers SK, I've just bottled up 8 pints of cider and 45 pints of beer, so a new brew is in order!

We had a week in York over Easter, one pub had real, cloudy, brewed, fiery ginger beer. A pint lasts Aaaaaaages!

I'll give it a go and let you know.

Pete

[andrewsmith]

Originally Posted by Bluepete

I read that wrong!

Images of a wet tee-shirt competition came to mind...


Pete

you read that right

Originally Posted by Littlepeahead

My plans changed slightly - thanks to Soulkiss's turbo charged ginger beer we had a rather sticky wet t-shirt contest in Supervox's garden. Tasted nice though!

Been making Ginger beer for a while now inspired by HFW don't brew it in the bottles, buy yourself a proper pressurized container and run it for two weeks, we reckon it was up round 6% from the really feeling it after two pints strength rating.

Also whack some dried chillies in it give it some FIRE!

Had a go at making imitation Crabbies till I worked out how much sugar you had to put in it to get it the same sweetness.

Some advice if you screw it up just mix it with ginger ale it will mask the flavor!